Topic: Multiboot DVD
started by: PrinceMohsen
Posted by PrinceMohsen on Mar. 17 2008,19:03
hi gang,I am trying to help a friend of mine compile a bootable DVD with 6 OSes as follows:
1.Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP1
2.Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP2
3.Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1
4.Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2
5.Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP2 Manual Partition
6.Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP2 for Virtual Servers.
right now we already have 6 DVDs with a working unattended setup and have no problems. what we're trying to do is put all of the OSes on one DVD with a menu at boot that give the option to which OS to setup.
here is what we did so far:
1. Read the user guide for EasyBoot.
2. Created a folder for each OS under EasyBoot\disk1 and copied all the files from the CD to the corresponding folder
3. Copied the setupldr.bin and fixboot.bin from each OS's folder and put it in the ezboot, and as you may have guessed by now I had to rename them to be able to put them all in the same folder.
4. In menu I pointed each item to the corresponding setupldr.bin file.
5. created the ISO file and burned it to DVD, and of course it didn't work or else I won't be posting this question here.
right now, we see the boot menu when we boot from the DVD, but when we click or select any menu item, it goes to black and blank screen with a flashing cursor and nothing's happening.
in the user guide and in the section of 'Create Windows NT bootable CD' they said "please check the following files":
C:\EasyBoot\disk1\ezboot\w2ksect.bin
C:\EasyBoot\disk1\i386\bootfix.bin
C:\EasyBoot\disk1\i386\setupldr.bin
C:\EasyBoot\disk1\cdrom_w.40 or C:\EasyBoot\disk1\cdrom_s.40
but they didn't say to check them for what!!. maybe they'd like us to play the guess game or whatever.
can you all help me out with this issue?
Thanks and I appreciate all comments.
Posted by xoben on Mar. 17 2008,21:11
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C:\EasyBoot\disk1\ezboot\w2ksect.bin
C:\EasyBoot\disk1\i386\bootfix.bin
C:\EasyBoot\disk1\i386\setupldr.bin
C:\EasyBoot\disk1\cdrom_w.40 or C:\EasyBoot\disk1\cdrom_s.40
but they didn't say to check them for what!!. maybe they'd like us to play the guess game or whatever.
C:\EasyBoot\disk1\i386\bootfix.bin
C:\EasyBoot\disk1\i386\setupldr.bin
C:\EasyBoot\disk1\cdrom_w.40 or C:\EasyBoot\disk1\cdrom_s.40
but they didn't say to check them for what!!. maybe they'd like us to play the guess game or whatever.
1) 'Check' means 'Check presence of specified file'
2) Please note taht windows 2003 has different signature file (such as cdrom_s.40 for Windows NT 4.0)